Relief from architectural stress.

There are certain moments in your life when you feel like giving up learning architecture. If you feel yourself down, you would not really look at your college works anymore. You will try to sit back and relax thinking of why you are not able to do this thing properly. You are confused about what work you are supposed to do. You want to plan your work accordingly but unable to do so. You want to outsmart your friends and perform the best in front of the juror or the reviewer. But you don’t know where to start.

This is a very not so serious case when you are in the middle of nowhere, you work is not started and you don’t know where to start from. In this case, you should not think of quitting the course, because these aforementioned situations don’t mean that you are bad at work. It is only an active force in you that is stopping you from working your stuff properly. You can think of the following points as a solutions

Talk to your friend.

Take your phone and ring that friend of yours who is enthusiastic in talking about the topic. This friend will certainly speak to you automatically about what you should do on your presentation and make sure to not down his/her methodology.

Methodology

Though your college forces you to follow one methodology for all your projects, you may try another method to work out your project. Or you should even try making your own method and talk about it with couple of your professors to make sure it will work fine. Now you have your own methodology!

Internet

You can find the best and the worst thin on the internet. Choose wisely what contents will help you overcome your confusion and note down needed points. NEVER ever adapt the entire content from a website as it is. People can make wrong stuffs at times and all the things are never same right!

Music

Music is the best way to manage your time. The more you listen to short music, the more concentration you will get in order to work out a timely well planned work. You work out your contents with the rhythm of the music, and you can do a lot of work in one single hour.

Take a break!

Taking a break is very important. Never go for conventional way of taking break. Like work for one hour, take five minutes break. This is so wrong. You should take break when you are confused. When you are at that point of tight spot where your brain is struggling to make a decision, just go out and take a walk, or watch the birds, or read newspaper. Don’t go for television or browsing mobile phone. Do something which makes your eyes go round and round the frame. So take a break.

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